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New ‘Post’ editor strives to better understand audience The past two academic years have been dedicated to understanding how The Post functions as a media outlet with a weekly print product and daily online presence. For the last two years — ever since our digital transition — Post staffers have been internally discussing the best ways to make the paper happen.

We made changes to our daily production and updated the way we produce content for the tabloid. It has been a learning process, but we have found a way to make The Post newsroom run smoothly. As a media outlet, though, we are still working to develop our audience across different mediums. The Post as a newspaper has been functioning well for more than a century, but the digital side of the newsroom is always changing.

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Regional OU campuses offering early retirement to address budget deficit After eight consecutive years of declining enrollment and subsidy cuts, Ohio University’s five regional campuses are facing “significant” budget challenges.

To help offset costs, the OU Board of Trustees approved a two-part early retirement plan for faculty and staff members at the January meeting. The plan is designed to address the budget deficit through decreasing the cost of personnel.

“We are, at the moment, very top heavy in terms of our compensation, so that’s the place where, if we are really to make end roads into this budget deficit, will have to be through some reduction in personnel costs,” Dean of Regional Education Bill Willan said.

The buyout for faculty would provide them with up to $70,000 for salary replacement and staff would receive $10,000. Both groups will also receive $10,000 for health insurance costs.

That will be a one-time payment for staff and in four parts over two years for faculty.

“Basically, it’s a separation payment,” Willan said.

Combined, the campuses are offering early retirement plans to about 100 employees.

“Usually when these buyouts occur, you have between 20 and 25 percent of those who are eligible take it,” Willan said.

“There’s no way at this current time to know what the savings would be.”

The deadline for employees to accept the early retirement program is March 30. Employees who accept the plan would retire at the end of Spring Semester. Some employees would have to be replaced; however, replacements would depend on the need of each department affected.

“There would be a higher percentage of faculty that would have to be replaced than staff,” Willan said.

“The savings there would be because we would have new faculty replace long-serving faculty, (and) their salaries would present some savings to us.”

Because early retirement means some faculty will be replaced, other faculty members have concerns about who will fill those positions.

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- Bill Willan, dean of regional education

our regional campuses’ colleges have a concern that this will further the shift from Group I — tenured faculty — to non-tenured faculty,” Faculty Senate Chair Joe McLaughlin said.

Since the decline in enrollment began in 2009, the campuses have worked to eliminate unnecessary costs.

“I think that the regional campuses have been taking steps towards cost reduction and looking at their revenue opportunities for a number of years,” Vice President for Finance and Administration Deborah Shaffer said at the January meeting.

The campuses have reduced costs by eliminating and reducing class sections.

“We’ve tried to do a better job of scheduling over our compressed video system to share courses that might be low enrolled,” Willan said. “So, to reduce expense, we’ve been making the moves in terms of economies.”

Because personnel costs are now the major factor in regional campuses’ budget deficits, the early retirement program aims to combat that.

“We think this is an approach to our budget issues that makes sense for those involved,” Willan said. “We’re hopeful that it has a very positive result.”

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AMPLIFIED OBSERVATIONS

The sorrow of Blind Willie Johnson Many styles of music strive to be the most depressing. Black metal bands, outlaw country singers and Future have all vied to embody the LUKE most anguished, downFURMAN trodden personas. But no is a senior amount of artistic masking studying or crafted intent can rival journalism the depression that stems at Ohio University. from a hard life of poverty, prejudice and prayer.

The proliferation of blues music in the early 20th century South made possible for these themes to be placed in an appropriate context and musical style that provided them with immortal impact, if by ethos alone.

Most people are familiar with 1930s blues musician Robert Johnson, who allegedly made a Faustian deal in order to compose seemingly simple but surprisingly complex guitar songs. His mysterious death in 1938 made him one of the first members of the “27 Club.” At least Johnson

had received some success during his lifetime — other blues musicians were recognized only after they had died impoverished.

In that vein, Blind Willie Johnson — not to be confused with either Blind Willie McTell or Robert Johnson — was a blues musician and preacher from Texas who faced hardships and a disability throughout his life. He died, in a burned-down house, from several ailments while he was experiencing homelessness in 1945. However, Johnson’s reputation did not die with him and would become amplified in the decades that followed.

Among the reasons for continued interest in Johnson is primarily a 1927 Columbia-released song he wrote and performed called “Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground.” It is a song so intrinsically depressing that it needs no words to express its message that is immediately evident.

Over the course of its three minutes and 21 seconds, Johnson plays demon-conjuring slide guitar substituting a knife for a bottleneck (Guitar Player). The only comfort the song offers over the resonant, lurching notes comes from Johnson’s chesty hums and moans, said to em-

ulate a church choir. The title of the work also originates from a 1792 English hymn by Thomas Haweis set in the Garden of Gethsemane, alluding to Christ’s crucifixion and cementing religious overtones of human suffering.

“Dark Was the Night” not only captures the sorrowful essence of Johnson’s southern life, but transcends cultural contexts to encapsulate a universal feeling of encroaching despair.

Although Blind Willie Johnson never left North America in his life, his signature song has since been interpolated by English rock band Led Zeppelin and used in the film The Gospel According to St. Matthew by legendary Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini.

In 2010, The Library of Congress deemed the single culturally significant enough to preserve in its National Recording Registry. But long before that recognition, Carl Sagan chose to include the song on the Voyager Golden Record in 1977 that would be carried by the Voyager 1 probe, which introduced the song to an even wider audience of earthlings.

All of those creators recognized the transcen-

dental sadness Johnson’s playing evoked on every listen. It almost feels like “Dark Was the Night” never starts nor stops, but continues to haunt the listener after the final chord until the next listen.

Sagan described the significance of the song as “nightfall with no place to sleep,” which metaphorically sums up suffering and depression.

No other song possesses the background or execution that can match the dismal atmosphere summoned in “Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground.” Its lack of lyrics displays Johnson’s withdrawal of trying to make sense of the world — he is only concerned with surviving in it.

In “Dark Was the Night,” Johnson lets his pain and uncertainty translate through his voice and guitar in its purest form and, thanks to Columbia Records, his painful catharsis will linger on so long there is another night to pass.

Please note that the views and opinions of the columnists do not reflect those of The Post. What do you think? Let Luke know by tweeting him @LukeFurmanLog or emailing him atlf491413@ohio.edu.

CINEMA AND SYNTAX

Filling out your Oscar ballot We are officially less than one week away from the Oscars. People will be popping champagne and celebrating 2017’s best in cinema.

GEORGIA And movie buffs everyDAVIS where might throw their is a junior own parties with food and studying drinks. No party would be journalism complete without the chalat Ohio lenge of guessing who will University. win each category. Here are some tips to make sure everyone is making the best guesses they can: SPLIT BEST DIRECTOR AND BEST PICTURE In the last five years, only one director has won in the Best Director category for the film that won Best Picture: Alejandro G. Inarritu for Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance). With this trend, it is best to split the categories when filling out a ballot — especially this year.

Right now, Guillermo del Toro is the favorite to win Best Director, which means it is unlikely The Shape of Water will take home Best Picture. Del Toro also won Best Direc4 / MARCH 1, 2018

tor at the Directors Guild Award, and that boosts his chances of winning Sunday. The front-runner for Best Picture is Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, which took home the Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild (SAG) award and British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) award for their equivalent of Best Picture. It’s a safe bet that it will win the Oscar, too.

DON’T RELY ON WHO WON GOLDEN GLOBES The Golden Globes took place almost two months ago on Jan. 7. A lot can happen in that amount of time.

The Golden Globes kick off the movie awards season and have a different group of voting members. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association votes for the Golden Globes. It’s journalists voting on what they think is best, not people who have been in the film industry for years. This can skew who gets voted for what. This year, the HFPA nominated The Post for seven awards, and the film only picked up two Oscar nods.

Instead of gauging whether a film will win, take a look at who won at the SAGs, BAFTAs, DGAs, Writers Guild Awards and Producers Guild Awards. The people who vote for those ceremonies also vote for the Oscars.

KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SOUND MIXING AND SOUND EDITING Sound Mixing and Sound Editing are the two most confusing categories at Oscars. The difference between the two is subtle, but it makes a big difference when choosing which film is going to win for each category.

Sound editing focuses on the sound captured directly on set. This can be any of the sound effects, dialogue or any added noises, like gunfire. The person edits the sounds directly into the movie. The next phase is where the sound mixing comes in. A sound mixer blends all the layers together and presents the final product. The front-runners in this category are Dunkirk and Baby Driver.

LOOK AT A LIST OF FRONT-RUNNERS FOR THE SHORT FILM CATEGORIES There are three categories for short films, which catches people off guard sometimes.

Most of the films can be found through a simple Google search or even on Netflix. For those who don’t feel like watching them all, just look at the front-runners — they typically win, according to IndieWire.

DO YOUR RESEARCH For those who haven’t seen every movie

on the list, there’s no need to work around a schedule to see them all. People can research front-runners to figure out if a film will win.

IndieWire does a comprehensive Oscar predictions page that changes as different films start leading. But when in doubt, following instinct is the best way to go.

Note that the views and opinions of the columnists do not reflect those of The Post.

Which film do you think will take home the most statues at the Oscars on Sunday? Tell Georgia by tweeting her at @georgiadee35.

Correction: An article from the Feb. 22 issue with the headline “Checklist encourages faculty members to assist students on autism spectrum” misstated who worked on the checklist and when it passed.

An article from the Feb. 22 issue with the headline “‘Rough Sleepers’ exhibition brings attention to homelessness” had several factual inaccuracies, including the number of people experiencing homelessness.

WORDS I MIGHT HAVE ATE

King Gizzard’s stripped-down gem King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard made good on its promise to release five full-length albums in 2018. But none of those albums SHELBY have the psychedelic CAMPBELL charm of its seventh is a freshman full-length album, Pastudying per Mache Dream Baljournalism loon, released in 2015. and political The album is a whimscience at Ohio sical retreat from what University. the Australian band released before Dream Balloon, with light acoustic guitars and flutes weaving their way through easy-listening psychedelia.

The album is the band’s least stressful.

Its light, dreamy instrumentation is per-

fectly described by its name; Paper Mache Dream Balloon has an airy ambiance that floats the listener through the album, instead of making the listener run through it.

The first song on the album, “Sense,” has a sweet tune that returns throughout the album. Its saxophone intro begins the album on a high note, with a jazzy tune that would seem out of place on any other psychedelic band’s album. It is smoother than many songs King Gizzard has released in the past.

There were no electric instruments on Dream Balloon. It instead used acoustic instruments — anything the band could find.

It was mostly recorded in an empty storage container on vocalist Stu Mackenzie’s parents’ farm, which contributed to the album’s dreamy, airy sound. It’s less intense than the band’s other releases because it

uses the acoustic sound to its advantage.

Psychedelic rock can often sound overproduced. By stripping the album down to its basics, the band made a softer record that is much easier to listen to than some of its other releases. Psychedelic rock benefits from a softer, whimsical acoustic sound that King Gizzard accomplishes with Dream Balloon. Although psychedelic rock is known for its many layers and strange noises, the occasional strippeddown album with exclusively acoustic instruments helps a band find its core.

On King Gizzard’s Bandcamp, Mackenzie called the album “a concept-less concept album,” which perfectly encapsulates the album’s sound. Dream Balloon followed several concept albums. The songs all seem to relate to each other because they aren’t related at all. Although the album is

tied together with flutes, the songs aren’t connected though themes. The songs have the central theme of not being related at all, which helps the album distinguish itself against the band’s 12 other releases.

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard’s Paper Mache Dream Balloon is different from the rest of the band’s albums because it’s stripped down. The band puts out an impressive amount of content every year, but 2015’s Dream Balloon is one of the most interesting albums it has released.

Please note that the views and opinions of the columnists do not reflect those of The Post. What is your favorite King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard album? Let Shelby know by tweeting her @bloodbuzzohioan.

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POLICE BLOTTER

People argue with each other about trucks; trespassers get stuck in mud ASHTON NICHOLS STAFF WRITER An argument on Facebook about trucks got heated on Feb. 24.

The sheriff’s office spoke with two people when both of them reported harassment from each other, according to a sheriff’s report.

They said an argument began on Facebook over a disagreement about “Ford trucks and Chevy trucks.” Both of the people were told to stop talking to each other and to block each other on social media.

A STICKY SITUATION The Athens County Sheriff’s Office responded to Ervin Road and U.S. Route 50 on Feb. 26 for a trespass complaint.

The property owner said two trucks

were on the property and appeared to be stuck. When deputies arrived, the trucks were indeed stuck, and they had entered the property without permission.

All of the occupants of the vehicles were given trespassing citations and were told not to return to the property, according to a sheriff’s report.

THE PLANTER POT The sheriff’s office responded to a Tedrow Road residence Feb. 26 about a cultivation of marijuana complaint.

Upon arriving, deputies spoke to the man, who said his two dogs had been poisoned and had died, according to a sheriff’s report.

Deputies checked his property and located some painted buckets with potting soil in them. It appeared as if someone had

grown marijuana on the property in the past or was preparing the site for this year.

GRAND THEFT AUTO: ATHENS The sheriff’s office was advised on Feb. 23 of a possible grand theft auto report.

Deputies met with the person who called it in, who said their client had reportedly told someone they had stolen a vehicle and crashed it late at night.

Deputies traveled to State Route 691 near Poston Road and saw the reported vehicle. They then spoke with the suspect. The suspect said they were angered at the business owner because the owner had made a threat to harm the suspect, according to a sheriff’s report.

The suspect then stole a car from the business, deputies said. Deputies then recovered the keys to the vehicle and spoke

to the owner. The owner of the vehicle and the business owner said they wished to pursue charges.

MOM’S BELONGINGS A women reported to the sheriff’s office on Feb. 24 that she had been told her mother’s belongings were being placed on the porch of her residence and being destroyed.

When deputies arrived, no belongings were on the porch, or damaged or destroyed. Deputies told everyone involved “not to ruin anyone else’s belongings,” according to a sheriff’s report.

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NEWS BRIEFS

Opt-out retail community solar program could save taxpayer money; Athens library gets new branch manager KAITLYN MCGARVEY FOR THE POST With the arrival of week seven, students begin to anxiously await the arrival of spring break. Here are some of what has been happening in and around Athens:

tion fund that would fund solar power on public buildings in Athens.

Eddie Smith, executive director of SOPEC, said the electric aggregation program may not make taxes go down for taxpayers, but rather less taxpayer money would be used on energy costs for public buildings.

SOPEC COULD SAVE TAXPAYER MONEY Programs enacted by the Southeast Ohio Public Energy Council, or SOPEC, could lower the amount of money spent on public energy.

SOPEC is a public energy council that aims to lower energy costs for eligible communities in southeast Ohio.

The proposed opt-out retail community solar program that will appear on the May 8 ballot aims to decrease individual energy consumption and raise public solar through a roughly $2 monthly carbon fee. The money from that tax would then be collected into an electricity aggrega-

ATHENS COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES HAS NEW ATHENS BRANCH MANAGER Julie Standish, the new Athens branch manager for the Athens County Public Libraries, was born in Athens and graduated from Ohio University in 2004 with a bachelor’s degree in interpersonal communications.

After graduating from OU, Standish received her master’s degree in library and information science from Kent State University. She said she always knew she wanted to be a librarian or a teacher.

Some of her goals in her new position, which she began Jan. 23, include working

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more within the Athens area. One idea she has is to have a book club at some of the bars around town.

Athens County Public Libraries Director Nick Tepe said he has no doubt that Standish will do a great job in the role given her past experience. She has worked for six different library systems.

“She’s been very positive and has jumped right into her new role, so I’m looking forward to seeing what she’ll do,” Tepe said.

NEW BILL AIMS TO HOLD UNIVERSITY PRESIDENTS ACCOUNTABLE FOR EMPLOYEE SEXUAL MISCONDUCT A new bill introduced by a bipartisan group of U.S. senators would require presidents at colleges and universities to guarantee each year that they reviewed all incidents of sexual misconduct reported to their campus Title IX coordinator, and that they did not interfere with inves-

tigations of those incidents.

According to The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Accountability of Leaders in Education to Report Title IX Investigations Act was introduced on Feb. 15 by Sen. Debbie A. Stabenow, D-Michigan, Sen. Gary C. Peters, D-Michigan, and Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas.

“University officials must be responsible stewards of students’ trust, especially when they come forward with unthinkable allegations of abuse,” Cornyn said in a news release. “This legislation would ensure reports of sexual misconduct against campus employees have been thoroughly reviewed by university leadership.”

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College of education faculty members reflect on Parkland shooting, prepare for future MAGGIE CAMPBELL FOR THE POST What is the difference between the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, on Feb. 14 and the shooting at Columbine High School in Columbine, Colorado, on April 20, 1999?

That was the difficult question students in Karen Oswald’s introduction to special education class discussed after the shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School.

Oswald, a senior lecturer in the Patton College of Education, said what happened at Columbine was assumed to be a onetime occurrence.

“Even though Columbine was (at a) high school, it was such a shock that people assumed it would never happen again,” Oswald said. “Then it did at a elementary school, and you had parents that were speaking out but not heard.”

After Parkland, though, Oswald noticed a difference in the reception of messages by adults.

“We have young adults that are very vocal and I think that they’re being heard,” Oswald said. “I know they’re being heard.

It’s a refreshing thing to think about.”

For Patton Dean Renee Middleton, the advocacy by those students is what the college is encouraging its teacher candidates to be.

“What we expect is for our teachers ... to be with those students, to be encouraging them to find their voice and to understand that they have to change the world they want to live in,” Middleton said.

Middleton said the college is not planning to change the way it trains teachers.

“What you see these students doing, that’s the sum total of what we are preparing our teachers to be,” Middleton said.

The connection Oswald’s class has made between Columbine and Parkland involved manifestation determination — the process of deciding disruptive behavior, such as soliciting drugs or carrying a firearm, is a manifestation of a child’s disability, Oswald said.

She said her understanding is that the shooters in Columbine or Parkland did not have individualized education programs, or IEPs, but were socially maladjusted. The disclosure of students’ participation in IEPs is protected under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, or FERPA. “They may have mental illnesses or mental brain disorders, but they’re falling 8 / MARCH 1, 2018

Senior Lecturer Karen Oswald poses for a portrait in a classroom in McCracken Hall. (HANNAH RUHOFF / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)

through the cracks and going unnoticed,” Oswald said.

During in-class discussions, students talked about how important it is to step out of the classroom, step into the hallway and interact with all the children in their school, Oswald said.

“You’re a part of that community; you’re a part of that social network,” Oswald said.

“You need to be observant, listening to conversations, watching for things.”

One program available to students and faculty for an active shooter situation is ALICE training, a program provided by the Ohio University Police Department that

helps people create a plan for a crisis.

Perianne Bates, a senior lecturer in Patton, said when she received training she was taught to close and block the door then corral students into a closet.

“I think it’s a vehicle by which we can at least be given a first step to take,” Bates said. “We can learn what to do and hope that it kicks in if something like that happens.”

The OU chapter of the Student Council for Exceptional Children is planning to host an ALICE training sometime after spring break, Oswald, who is the faculty adviser, said.

Middleton said in an email that the Patton curriculum includes “trauma informed” practice. Patton has also held a forum on “trauma informed practice” to help the community, teachers and teacher candidates understand and see the signs of trauma.

The practice is a prerequisite to enabling effective learning, Middleton said.

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ARC report lists Athens County as ‘distressed’ The Appalachian Regional Commission listed Athens County as a distressed county in its evaluation of Appalachian county economic statuses for fiscal year 2018. Athens County was listed as at-risk instead of distressed for fiscal year 2017.

The Appalachian Regional Commission, or ARC, takes several different index factors, such as unemployment rates, per capita market income and poverty rates, and compares them to national averages.

The ARC’s 420 counties are then ranked into five categories: distressed, at-risk, transitional, competitive or attainment.

Distressed counties are in the bottom 10 percent of counties nationally in those three index factors.

Attainment is the counties that are doing the best economically, and distressed is the bottom of the group, Wendy Wasserman, communication and media relations director for the ARC, said.

“Distressed, for us, just means it’s in the quintile of the counties with the most economic challenges that year,” Wasserman said.

Athens County has a poverty rate of 33 percent, compared to a national poverty rate of 15.5 percent, according to ARC data.

Distressed counties qualify for the ARC’s Distressed Counties Program. The program has two parts that look to help those counties boost economic development. The program includes an effort to assist local communities with economic development.

The ARC provides funding and outreach to distressed counties. It also has a telecommunication effort that looks to boost technological growth. Athens County, along with 83 other Appalachian counties, qualifies for distressed county status, according to the ARC website.

Lenny Eliason, one of the Athens County commissioners, said Athens County has received funding in previous years because it was listed as distressed.

“Athens County received a 60 percent grant 40 percent loan from USDA to fund the building of the Route 50 corridor sewer project because we are listed as a distressed county,” Eliason said in an email.

Wasserman said there are many ways to help Athens’ distressed economic status.

“Really strategic, thoughtful and well planned out economic development is always a good place to start,” Wasserman said in a previous Post report. “That can start at a very individual level at a business or an entrepreneur and work its way all the

Appalachian Ohio counties economic statuses for 2018

way up to federal funding.”

Eliason said several factors drive up the poverty rate in Athens.

“One of the factors that contributes to the distress designation is the inclusion of the student population into the census numbers,” Eliason said in an email. “Because they do not have large incomes, if any, they help drive up the poverty numbers. The relative isolation from interstate highways is a problem for most Appalachian counties which (hinders) job growth and income growth.”

The Athens County Economic Development Council has several strategies to try to further economic growth, Sara Marrs-Maxfield, executive director of the council, said.

“Athens County’s high poverty rates and low incomes are driven by the lack of high wage private sector jobs,” Marrs-Maxfield said in an email. “Our local economy relies heavily on government and low wage retail, food service and accommodation jobs. In

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One of the factors that contributes to the distress designation is the inclusion of the student population into the census numbers.

Because they do not have large incomes, if any, they help drive up the poverty numbers

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- Lenny Eliason, Athens County commissioner

order to move the needle in the right direction, we need to focus our efforts on growing high wage private sector industries such as advanced manufacturing, professional services, healthcare, and biotechnology, to name a few.”

Although there are many strategies Athens County could take, Marrs-Maxfield said the best way to boost Athens’ economy is cooperation.

“No one entity can solve this issue, no matter how many programs they launch,” Marrs-Maxfield said in an email. “This is a systemic issue that bleeds across communities regardless of political boundaries.

The way to ‘fix this’ is for non-profits like ours, government, and the private sector and others to work together towards the common goal of quality jobs and progress.”

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Updates to Ohio’s budget put services at risk GEORGE SHILLCOCK FOR THE POST Recent state-level changes in nonemergency transportation services could cause difficulties for residents of rural, impoverished regions seeking to obtain transportation to medical appointments through Medicaid.

Ohio’s latest budget changed the allocation of nonemergency transportation funds from the responsibility of the Department of Job and Family Services at the county level to the responsibility of Ohio’s Department of Medicaid at the state level.

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ly Service employees are troubled about those recent changes and the effects they might have on their clients.

“We are concerned that removing the local administration aspect of (nonemergency transportation) services in our county will make it more difficult for eligible clients to secure transportation for their medical appointments,” Scott Zielinski, the executive director of the Athens County Department of Job and Family Services, said in an email.

Through those transportation services, Medicaid users have access to transportation to doctor’s appointments, dialysis and other forms of nonemergency medical appointments.

Many of those people either can’t afford to transport themselves to those appointments or are unable to due to disabilities or lack of transportation.

“If we can really figure our transportation and figure out how to provide for

more people, it opens up a better quality of life,” Athens City Councilman Peter Kotses, D-At Large, said.

Nonprofit organizations such as the Hocking Athens Perry Community Action, or HAPCAP, that help develop, manage and provide services and support to individuals and families who lack sufficient financial resources are unsure about the recent changes to nonemergency transportation.

Jessica Stroh, the division director for Transportation Services at HAPCAP, said changes like those tend to have a “rippling effect” that disrupts the coordination between those groups and county services.

“There are a lot of efforts going on at the state and cabinet level as the states try to work to help the system work better in a more coordinated fashion,” Stroh said. “We are hopeful that even with this change there will be something positive, but we do not know yet.”

In 2017, Athens County Department of

Job and Family Services spent $1,133,661 on nonemergency transportation, provided 42,351 one-way rides and processed 15,842 gas vouchers for payment.

“We have multiple providers and work directly with service providers to make sure transportation is accessible,” Zielinski said. “In our part of the state, where transportation is such a barrier for low-income people, it is imperative that systems to address the issue are created with as much local input and decision-making capability as possible.”

The Columbus Dispatch reported that the Ohio Department of Medicaid hasn’t yet hired a company to act as the third-party broker for the new system.

The department is asking potential brokers about how they can serve Ohio’s approximately 3 million Medicaid recipients.

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Hocking Correctional Unit to close by end of March

ASHTON NICHOLS STAFF WRITER The Hocking Correctional Unit is set to close by the end of March.

The unit was built in 1955 for use as a hospital to treat tuberculosis patients, according to the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction. It was later turned into a children’s center, abandoned and then given to the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction in 1982.

Deputy Communication Chief Grant Doepel said all employees will be offered outgoing jobs with the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction after the Hocking Correctional Unit closes.

The current prison population will be transferred to “appropriate security level institutions,” Doepel said. The unit is the single-most expensive facility to operate in the entire state, costing $65 per inmate per day, compared to $21 per inmate per day at similar facilities.

The Hocking unit costs approximately $11.5 million annually for its 430 inmates and 110 staff, Doepel said. Comparablesized facilities in Richland, Belmont and Trumbull counties cost approximately $3 million annually.

The Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction said the facility could be repurposed for an educational, health care, drug treatment or government service mission.

Athens City Council unanimously voted to approve a resolution opposing the closure.

“When I first heard about the closing back in January, I was really very disturbed about this,” Councilman Jeff Risner, D-2nd Ward, said. “Because we have a facility that has a lot of goodpaying jobs that contribute a lot to our local economy.”

Athens City Council President Chris Knisely said the closing would mean a loss of income tax revenue for local municipalities. In Athens, the income tax revenue is the main source for the city’s general fund, which covers operating

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My hope is that the necessary repairs and maintenance on the facility can be addressed and new use for the building be quickly found.

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All 110 staff members will be offered other jobs, and the 430 inmates will be transferred elsewhere

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costs for the city, she said.

“My hope is that the necessary repairs and maintenance on the facility can be addressed and new use for the building be quickly found,” Knisely said in an email.

Risner said the City of Nelsonville estimates revenue losses of about $340,000 per year if the facility closes.

“In today’s economy, everything is tied together,” Risner said. “What impacts one community impacts another. We’re all in the same boat down here in southeast Ohio. Our economy is depressed. … We have to speak out some way and let people know that we’re concerned about it. We’re not going to lie down and take it.”

In 2012, Ohio became the first state in the country to sell a state-owned prison to a private company. Today, two of the state’s 28 prisons are privately owned, according to the Ohio American Civil Liberties Union. The state has not announced plans to privatize any additional prisons.

Proposals for companies and the community to plan what to do with the Hocking Correctional Unit are due March 30.

Lauren Fisher contributed to this report.

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How craft beer hopped into Athens’ palate

Little Fish Brewing Company co-founder Sean White checks on a batch of beer at the brewing company’s taproom at 8675 Armitage Road.

Led by Jackie O’s and facilitated by strong local demand, Athens has an outsized beer scene that continues to grow JEREMY HILL / SENIOR WRITER PHOTOS BY CARL FONTICELLA Grunge music reverberated off metal tanks and walls as Art Oestrike, owner of Jackie O’s Pub and Brewery, stepped through the company’s 13,000 square-foot manufacturing facility on Athens’ east side.

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comfortably into a chair in a high-ceilinged, second-story conference room. He reflected on the years since 2005, when he first opened Jackie O’s Brewpub.

“It’s just been a wild ride,” Oestrike said. “There’s no way in hell that, 12 years ago or 13 years ago, you’d say we’d be sitting in this conference room up above, in this nice new building — that we’d be doing this through craft beer.”

But it’s true. Jackie O’s — which, in its early years, pumped out as few as 400 barrels of beer from its uptown brewpub — now produces more than 10,000 barrels annually at the Campbell Street facility that opened in 2012.

“I get asked that question a lot: ‘Did you ever think?’ No, no, not a chance.

It’s just, it’s crazy that—” Oestrike’s cell phone rang. He paused to silence

it. “There’s a lot of phone calls. A lot of luck. A lot of timeliness. A lot of gambling, like a lot of rolling of the dice, throughout the years.”

That first roll of the dice came in 2005 when Brad Clark, then an Ohio University student, told Oestrike he should buy the brewpub at which Clark was a bartender, O’Hooley’s Irish Pub. Oestrike did just that, and, just months later, a freshly-minted Jackie O’s Brewpub fermented its first batch of the brewery’s flagship beer, Firefly Amber.

Since then, Athens County has seen the emergence of an outsized craft beer scene.

Spurred by demand for locally produced goods and helped along by changes in state laws, at least five breweries now call Athens County home — a boom that came about in tandem with statewide craft beer growth.

LEGALLY SPEAKING Athens might have President Jimmy Carter to thank for its wealth of breweries.

In 1978, Carter signed into law HR 1337, which loosened post-prohibition brewing regulations and allowed those with an interest in making their own beer to do so.

“We always talk about what’s happened in law Ohio recently, but if you do look back that’s probably what laid the groundwork for the development of what we’re seeing now,” Kevin Connell, an attorney with Ohio Beer Counsel, said.

It squares with the local story: Both Clark and Devil’s Kettle’s Cameron Fuller got their starts in homebrewing.

Data on the opening of breweries nationwide seem to bolster that argument.

In the late 1970s, the U.S. laid claim to under 100 breweries, according to the Brew-

ers Association. By 1990, that number was up to 284. And in 1995 — the year O’Hooley’s, the brewpub that later became Jackie O’s, opened — the count climbed to 858.

Rapid growth continued until the late 1990s, then stagnated and even declined slightly. When Oestrike bought O’Hooley’s in 2005, there were 1,447 breweries in the U.S., and just one in Athens.

Another six years passed before the state of Ohio lent a helping hand to its burgeoning craft beer market. In 2011, Ohio Gov. John Kasich signed HB 243, which brought taprooms into existence in the state.

“Really, I think that opened the floodgates,” Connell said of the law. “Craft beer I think was bubbling up from the ground up earlier than that, but I think in terms of its growth in Ohio and explosive growth since 2011, that’s really the impetus for it was change in the law.”

It’s especially important in a place like Athens, where liquor licenses — which, in Ohio, are capped based on population — can be hard to come by.

More legislation eased would-be brewers into taking the plunge in 2013, when the state created a separate license for small-scale brewers that is cheaper to obtain than a standard license.

“Within a one or two year span, the state really turned the law on its head to the benefit of craft breweries,” Adam Armstrong, an attorney at Ohio Beer Counsel, said. “It took the shackles off and made it cheaper to take that passion and they were doing as homebrewers — most of them — and turn it into a legitimate and thriving business.”

TODAY’S LANDSCAPE Since the passage of that legislation, Athens’ craft beer scene has matured.

The co-owners of Little Fish Brewing Company, Jimmy Stockwell and Sean White, began planning for their operation in 2013 and ultimately opened in 2015, not long after the opening of Devil’s Kettle.

“Beer seemed like a really good opportunity,” Stockwell said of why he and White started Little Fish. “It matched, certainly Sean’s skill set — that’s what he did professionally — but also with me, having worked in like a biotech manufacturing facility, there was some overlap in just sort of how business works.”

Stockwell spent eight years working for biotech company Quidel in research and development; White previously worked as a brewer for Jackie O’s.

“So when we got together, we saw a lot of opportunity to just get something for the community, something we could be proud of, fill a niche and do something that we could do well,” Stockwell said.

He and White are both Athens natives, a fact Stockwell said helps Little Fish mesh

TIMELINE

The dates below mark significant events in the development of the Athens’ beer scene.

1978 President Jimmy Carter signs bill relaxing laws surrounding homebrewing.

1995 Athens resident Jimmy Prouty opens O’Hooley’s Irish Pub, Athens’ first brewpub.

with the community, one with a reputation for supporting locally owned businesses.

Three beers from Little “Athens is a very locally centered, locally minded community, which has defi- Fish Brewing nitely helped support all of us as craft Company on display in its breweries,” Oestrike said. “No doubt, taproom at there’s something in the water — there’s 8675 Armitage something in the air.”

Road.

Since Little Fish and Devil’s Kettle opened in 2015, local beer has seen even more growth. Multiple Brewing began serving up both American-style ales and India pale ales, or IPAs, in Nelsonville in 2016. The same year saw the opening of the Eclipse Company Store, a craft beer hall, in The Plains.

Justin Hemminger, communications manager for the Ohio Craft Beer Association, said the growth of Athens’ beer scene was certainly spearheaded by Jackie O’s, but there also seems to be an unusually strong demand for craft beer in the city.

“It just means that the beer drinkers in Athens are more receptive to having places like Little Fish and Devil’s Kettle,” Hemminger said.

LOOKING AHEAD There has been talk about whether the market for craft beer — both locally and nationally — is getting crowded.

It’s something Stockwell and White considered even before opening Little Fish in 2015.

“I think most people were wondering whether or not the market was saturated, so that’s really what we addressed before starting,” Stockwell said. “And clearly, it wasn’t.”

Things certainly haven’t been slow at Little Fish’s machine-shop-turned tap-

room at 8675 Armitage Road in Athens.

The two are close to breaking ground on an expansion that will allow them to up their production — the brewery pumped out about 600 barrels last year. Speaking at the taproom in early February, Stockwell said he hadn’t had a day off in a month.

Still, the picture nationally is showing some signs of slowing down.

“At a certain point, the craft beer scene is, and or will be, saturated, and you’ll start to see those numbers drop or fewer openings,” Oestrike said. “We’ve been on really astronomical growth in the past few years, and, at some point, the market will correct itself.”

Since Jackie O’s opened in 2005, the number of breweries in the U.S. has grown from 1,447 to 5,301 in 2016. Hemminger estimated that five years ago there were fewer than 50 craft brewers in Ohio — now the state is home to more than 250. He thinks that fears of a bubble are overdone, though.

“I certainly think they’re overblown,” Hemminger said of worries of saturation. “Craft beer still only occupies about 12 percent of the beer market, so I think there’s still room for growth.”

Stockwell said Little Fish doesn’t have plans for expansion beyond its current ones — it looks to stay small.

Oestrike said Jackie O’s only recently has been able to fully keep up with the demand for its product and is now taking time to tweak processes and do what it sets out to do: make good beer.

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2005 Art Oestrike purchases O’Hooley’s and renames it Jackie O’s.

2011 Ohio changes law to allow taprooms, where brewers can sell their beer on-site without a liquor license.

2012 Jackie O’s opens Campbell Street taproom.

2013 Ohio legislators create separate and cheaper license for small-scale brewers.

2015 Devil’s Kettle and Little Fish Brewing open in Athens.

2016 Eclipse Company Store and Multiple Brewing open outside of Athens.

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Hidden stairs in the Daniel Weethee House. (MEAGAN HALL / PHOTO EDITOR)

Traces of the runaways

W Dane McCarthy, the owner of the Daniel Weethee House.

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JESSICA HILL | FOR THE POST

hen Dane McCarthy first moved into the historical Daniel Weethee House in Millfield, he had heard stories about a secret stairwell connected to the attic where runaway slaves used to hide. It wasn’t until he started exploring that he began to learn about the house’s role in the Underground Railroad.

Athens, along with other towns in southeast Ohio, played a significant part in helping runaway slaves seek freedom. The city was one of the first stopping points runaway slaves made during their journey after leaving slave state Virginia before West Virginia separated from it during the Civil War. The Hocking River provided transportation routes upstream for “conductors” in boats to carry fugitives, according to a book by Henry Burke, an Underground Railroad historian.

UNDERGROUND RAILROAD STATIONS IN SOUTHEAST OHIO

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ABOVE: The interior of White’s Mill.

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DANIEL WEETHEE HOUSE

LEFT: The exterior of the Daniel Weethee House.

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24 E. WASHINGTON ST.

WHITE’S MILL

UNDERGROUND RAILROAD PATH

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The events of the Underground Railroad that happened in the region were “fundamental” to ensure people’s journey to freedom, Akil Houston, an associate professor of African American Studies, said. A few of those sites that were a part of the Underground Railroad still remain today.

The Daniel Weethee House sits a 20-minute car ride from Athens, on top of a hill, down the road from a water treatment plant and a chicken farm. Built in 1804, the same year Ohio University was founded, the house contains more than two centuries worth of history.

Before Dane McCarthy bought it in 1997, the house was decrepit. With no electricity, plumbing or bathrooms, it looked like an abandoned, haunted house. He had lived in the house as a renter during the 1970s when the rent was $20 a month.

Since purchasing the house, McCarthy has been spending the past two decades making the house livable while also restoring it to its original look. He is excavating a room on the first floor where a wall had blocked off the original fireplace.

“I’ve always loved archeology, and I think it’s important to try to keep the original appearance of the house for historical reasons,”

McCarthy said. “They don’t make them like this anymore. This is the real thing.”

The builder, Daniel Weethee, an abolitionist, was one of the first pioneers in Athens who walked from New Hampshire and settled in Millfield, McCarthy said.

The house’s original wall paint and ornamental design on the ceiling are still visible.

Two sets of stairs were common for houses back then, McCarthy said — one was for the family, the other was for the servants.

McCarthy had not seen that second set of stairs when he first moved in. He had heard stories from his neighbors about the house once serving as a place to hide runaway slaves. He later talked to Weethee’s great-granddaughter, Bernarda Bryson Shahn, a painter who lived nearby, about the house’s history.

When Shahn was little, she had found an iron ring on the floor of the attic that revealed a hidden set of stairs, which were blocked at other end by another hidden door. It was there, in that closed-off stairwell, runaway slaves once hid.

The Daniel Weethee House isn’t the only historical site near Athens that was once a station in the Underground Railroad.

White’s Mill, across the Hocking Riv-

er and down the road from the Richland Avenue roundabout, was also used to help fugitives reach their freedom. Originally named the Herrold Mill, it was built in 1809

by Silas Bingham before Joseph Herrold, his stepson, bought it in 1840.

Tyler Schloss, the current co-owner of White’s Mill, said Herrold was also an abolitionist who hid runaway slaves beneath the spillway, a water passage at the mill. Fugitives then would go to Chesterhill, the next town in the Underground Railroad, according to Burke’s book, Washington County Underground Railroad.

“It’s a kind of pride,” Schloss said. “Being an owner, I’m proud that the past owners recognized slavery as an evil thing and wanted to eradicate it and do their part just because it was the right thing to do. If we were in that situation, I’d like to think we’d do the same thing.”

Some places in Athens, however, contain more mystery and rumor than actual truth.

Mindy Heflin, one of the directors for Athletes in Action, and her husband bought a house at 24 E. Washington St. after hearing about its history. She heard rumors that there was once a tunnel in the basement in which runaway slaves hid.

The story goes that a runaway slave named Nicodemus hid in the basement.

Someone found out about Nicodemus hiding in the house, and people came in yelling with torches. They dragged him out of the house and killed him in the yard.

People have witnessed ghostly behaviors, such as strange noises and doors opening and closing on their own, in the house, according to the The Oklahoman.

“I don’t know if there’s a shred of truth to it,” Heflin said.

A Southeast Ohio History Center historian told Heflin those stories came about in the 1960s and were likely made up, as most stations in the Underground Railroad were outside of the main city. There is also no documentation of the story of Nicodemus ever occurring, but John Kachuba, former professor and author of Ghosthunting Ohio, said that the story is plausible.

“Whether this house was used for the (Underground Railroad) or not, I think everyone hopes it was,” Heflin said. “Because everyone wants to be able to say they were a part of doing something that was so right.”

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Portrait painting evolves with time but remains part of artistic tradition The Obamas’ presidential portraits serve as a focal point for discussion on contemporary portrait painting ALEXIS EICHELBERGER STAFF WRITER Many official painted portraits have a certain look about them. They depict a public figure in a serious manner, often against a plain background. If the subject is a government official, it might be in an office setting instead. The differences among them are subtle, and the conservative nature of those painted portraits has prevailed throughout history.

Jennie Klein, a professor and area chair of art history, thinks contemporary official portraits are ugly.

Since the invention of photography, official portraits have become bland, Klein said. They depict their subjects’ likeness well enough, and the artists clearly have skill. But their style is rigid and often lacks creativity.

However, the paintings of former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama, which were unveiled Feb. 12, have set the bar for presidential portraits at a different level.

“The Obama portraits are sort of a break, kind of indicating that this was a young, hopeful presidency,” Klein said. “We actually have some good portraits for a change.”

Steeped in tradition, portrait painting has evolved and prevailed alongside the introductions of photography and other digital imaging technologies. It remains customary for some members of society’s elite, and it presents particular challenges to artists as they try to capture someone’s image in a way that shows both accuracy and artistic vision.

The Obama portraits, the first presidential portraits to be painted by African-American artists, are unconventional additions to the National Portrait Gallery in more ways than one. The former president sits tieless among symbolic foliage. The former first lady is painted with gray skin, a characteristic technique of artist Amy Sherald, who uses grayscale to symbolize racial ambiguity.

Klein said the Obamas’ atypical portraiture sends a message that supports contemporary work that breaks free of established norms.

“As you get closer to this era, the problem is there’s this kind of convention,” Klein said.

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Students in Andrew McNamara’s class on traditional practices in painting work on their pieces in Seigfred Hall on Feb. 21.

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ing when you break the convention. But I think (the Obamas’) portraits really represent who and what the Obamas were, and what they represented.”

Holly McCoy, a sophomore studying studio art, often draws portraits, both for class and for personal enjoyment. She likes drawing celebrities or members of her family and finds depicting a person’s likeness to be the most difficult task in art. Nevertheless, she enjoys the challenge.

“I like to practice getting better at perfectly portraying someone, because one little mess up and it doesn’t even look like the person,” she said. “It’s really difficult and I kind of like that about it.”

Andrew McNamara, a graduate student studying painting and drawing, teaches an art class on traditional practices in painting at Ohio University. His students will

eventually paint their own self-portraits, taking on what he agrees to be the most challenging subject to depict in art.

“I think that if you spend the time to be able to learn how to draw the face, the body, after you kind of gain success there, drawing everything else becomes much easier,” McNamara said. “I think those are the most difficult lines of proportions to get accurate.”

McNamara said there are endless techniques used to capture the correct proportions of a face. Some artists throw those out altogether and still find great success. One of the biggest challenges of depicting humanity is the individuality of each face.

“Even now, I’ve been painting the figure — especially portraits — for years, and it’s still a challenge sometimes, because everyone’s different,” he said. “Sometimes, those rules don’t apply, depending on your subjects.”

In the age of technology, portraiture has faded from prominence. A person’s likeness can be captured perfectly in an instant with the click of a camera rather than through hours spent tediously painting on a canvas. But McNamara thinks it will always have its place.

“I think there’s something special about the care and the time put into that kind of work to capture that person that comes through in all the choices made,” he said.

“Brush work, color choices, even the style of the painting. A lot of those things technically could be achieved through a photograph, but it carries a different soul when it’s done through paint.”

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Trivia hosts foster fun, develop camaraderie through game nights More local businesses are hosting Team Trivia nights, and the hosts are a key part of the fun

ALEXIS EICHELBERGER STAFF WRITER Every Thursday, Kyle Dasher spends a few hours bantering with customers at Sol Island Bar and Grill about trivia questions.

He sits on a slightly elevated area of the floor in the corner of the restaurant behind a small table, microphone in hand.

Sipping a beer, he taps at an iPad, selecting background music and calling out questions on topics ranging from NASCAR numbers to The Wizard of Oz. Team Trivia, a franchise of live trivia games hosted by businesses across the U.S., has taken up residence at two Athens County businesses: Sol, 700 E. State St., and Eclipse Company Store in The Plains. It will also soon make its debut Uptown at Jackie O’s Brewpub and Public House, 24 W. Union St. At the heart of any good trivia night is the host, and there are some definite do’s and don’ts to being one that creates a fun and fair playing environment.

Luckily, Dasher has had plenty of practice. He hosts the weekly sessions at both Sol and Eclipse, and, though he will soon leave the Sol position, he’ll take over the new game at Jackie O’s in March.

Dasher first found his talent for trivia hosting while he was working as a bartender at Eclipse. The beer hall started having Team Trivia nights with a different host, but when that person didn’t quite fit the role, Dasher took over the mic.

“It’s become a hit,” he said.

Dasher said he was comfortable hosting from the beginning. The program he uses to generate the questions is user-friendly, and he’s a personable guy who’s comfortable with a microphone. The challenge arises when the trivia night regulars get argumentative.

“I feel like they have no problem coming up to me and telling me when something’s wrong or if I’m being unfair,” Dasher said. “So it can be stressful.”

Arden MacDonald, who graduated from Ohio University in 2017, is training to take over Dasher’s place as trivia host at Sol. She volunteers at WOUB’s radio station and felt that hosting trivia events calls for the same kind of skills.

“Something like this, where I just meet a lot of people, that’s what I want to do,” she said. “I want to network. Connecting with

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MacDonald is mostly excited to start hosting in the next week or two, but she also feels a little nervous. She has picked up a few pointers while observing Dasher, noting how she will have to carefully check answers and allocate points accordingly.

“There’s regulars that come here, and they have expectations,” she said. “They develop a relationship with (Dasher), so if I underperform, they’re going to compare me to (him).”

Virginia Dykeman and three of her friends are some of those regulars. They go to Eclipse often and have come to Sol nearly every week since it first started hosting trivia night about a year ago. They were even the winners on the first night. Now, they don’t win much, but they still enjoy the game.

“We got third place at Eclipse on Tuesday,” Dykeman said. “But here, not so much, because it gets pretty full and there’s a lot of smarties.”

Dykeman said Dasher is a good, funny host. After playing for so many weeks, she and her teammates have developed a kind of friendship with him, bantering back and forth and convincing him to change the music selection when they don’t quite approve.

Dykeman’s trivia team isn’t family. The members are just a group of friends who like coming together to laugh and talk over dinner — and trivia nights give them a reason to do so.

“We don’t so much care if we win, because we come and we have fun and we have a meal together,” Dykeman said. “It’s just our time to connect with each other, and this is just bonus. Icing on the cake.”

Kyle Dasher hosts Trivia Night at Sol Island Bar and Grill on Feb. 22.

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HOCKEY

Ohio moves into familiar territory despite disappointing CSCHL tournament THE BOBCATS ARE IN AN IDENTICAL SPOT COMPARED TO LAST SEASON, WHEN THEY WERE RUNNERS-UP IN THE ACHA NATIONAL TOURNAMENT

Ohio sophomore forward Gianni Evangelisti skates to the puck during the Bobcats’ game against Illinois on Feb. 10. (EMILEE CHINN / FILE)

ANTHONY POISAL FOR THE POST Ohio has, for the most part, moved on from its 5-4 loss to Illinois in the semifinals of the Central States Collegiate Hockey League postseason tournament Feb. 24.

Senior and team captain Jake Faiella told his teammates after the game that they should spend 30 minutes thinking about the defeat, then move on.

Faiella's message was likely easier said than done for Ohio. Some of the Bobcats probably haven't even checked to see who won the divisional championship game Feb. 25 between Illinois and Lindenwood in Ohio University's own Bird Arena, which hosted the tournament. (Lindenwood won 4-1.)

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giate Hockey Association's national tournament on March 9 in Columbus.

Ohio is heading into the national tournament with just one win in its last four games and a one-and-done in its divisional playoffs.

When was the last time that happened?

Just a year ago, the Bobcats won their first three games in the national tournament, which was also in Columbus, before losing in the championship game.

Ohio was also ranked No. 3 in the nation before last season's national tournament and secured a crucial first-round bye. This year, the Bobcats are ranked No. 4 and have another first-round bye — the top four teams in the national rankings secure the bye in the national tournament.

The bye means that Ohio will play either No. 13 UNLV or No. 20 Drexel, as those two teams will fight for the second round on March 8 while the Bobcats enjoy the day off.

If the Rebels advance, the Bobcats know they can beat them — they swept UNLV by a combined 10-2 score in two games last October in Athens.

If Drexel advances, well, Ohio hasn't lost to an opponent ranked outside No. 15 in the nation all season.

Perhaps most importantly, the Bobcats will likely have as healthy of a roster as they've had all season. And, with a thunderous knock on wood on coach Sean Hogan's desk, hopefully no injuries arise in the practices leading up to nationals.

The only injury concern the Bobcats have right now is with defenseman Nick Grose, who missed Saturday's game with an upper-body injury.

Ohio skated 13 forwards in Saturday's loss for the first time since Sept.

23. Though the Bobcats' additional roster depth may not have been a factor Saturday, it certainly won't hurt them if they want

to make another deep run in the national tournament, in which the winner will have to play at least four games in five days.

“You have to overcome adversity at some point,” Hogan said after Ohio's double-overtime loss to Lindenwood in the CSCHL tournament last season.

Hogan couldn't have expected that his team would be doing nothing but that a year later, and the loss to Illinois will only add to the pile of challenges Ohio has faced this season.

But as the Bobcats move past the Feb. 24 defeat, they will shift toward a national tournament atmosphere containing a lot more familiarities than differences compared to last year.

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Even after playoff loss, Bulldogs are set for the foreseeable future TREVOR COLGAN FOR THE POST I feel as if I have written this before.

Oh, wait, I have.

Athens almost wrote the same story for itself in the sectional championship this season as it did last year.

Then I really would have written the story again.

When Athens came back from eight points down in the fourth quarter Friday against Vinton County and had a chance to take the lead with 7.8 seconds left at the free-throw line, the story could really have went the same way.

But, eventually, seasons come to an end. Five seniors will never put on the green and gold Bulldog jersey again.

Those five seniors are Micah Saltzman, Robert Dickelman, Dalton Cozart, Austin Koska and Nathan Whitehead.

The Bulldogs, however, return four starters from the lineup that got them to the brink of winning sectionals and playing in The Convo for the district tournament.

Three of those returning four starters will be seniors: Logan Maxfield, Eli Chubb and Justin Hynes.

Those three led the team in scoring against Vinton County: Maxfield scored 12, Chubb led with 16 and Hynes had 11.

So, even with the departure of five seniors, the Bulldogs appear to be in pretty good shape.

Through two seasons with coach Mickey Cozart at the helm, the Bulldogs have twice finished second in the TriValley Conference Ohio.

This season — even though the season ended one game sooner than the last — might be more impressive. The Bulldogs started the season 0-3, went to 3-9 and finished 12-10.

A rough start was followed by a ninegame winning streak in which Mickey got his first win as Athens coach against Vinton County — the team that has won the TVC Ohio the past three seasons — and came just short of getting his second.

The games Athens and Vinton County played recently have been back-and-forth affairs and look to be that way for the foreseeable future.

“I think you’re going to see a lot of that between Athens and Vinton the next five

Athens junior Henry Gerig (#10) heads for the hoop during the Bulldogs’ game against Vinton County at Logan High School in Logan on Feb. 23. (MIJANA MAZUR / FILE)

to 10 years,” Mickey said. “We’ve kind of set standards on our expectations of play, and, unfortunately for our end of it, they’ve got the better of us. We want to get that turned around.”

Building a program to be a contender year after year isn’t the easiest thing, but it looks as if Mickey has the Bulldogs trending in that direction.

Finishing second in the conference in the first two seasons under a new head coach isn’t anything to be ashamed of — especially this year, when Athens’ overall

record was 3-9 at the midway point.

Athens’ key has been winning the conference games it should win. Even with a 3-9 start, those three wins came in conference play. Athens was even 3-1 in the TVC Ohio at one point before dropping a close game to Wellston and losing to Vinton County.

Then, the streak came.

The defense and offense began to click, as the confidence that the team had in itself, even though it was 3-9, showed — like after the Jan. 30 win over Jackson, win

No. 4 of the streak, when Mickey emerged from the locker room, fist pumping.

“Who in this area didn’t think Athens was done but the guys in the locker room and maybe some of the fans?” Mickey said.

“We never thought we were done. We kept going to the gym and going to work.”

That kind of confidence and drive is good for the program, and it’s why the Bulldogs should be in contention for years to come.

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Beneath I the ‘model minority’

MEGHAN MORRIS FOR THE POST n the late 1800s, Chinese immigrants made great contributions to the transcontinental railroad and were the first Asian group to come to the United States in droves. Any other groups that came over in later decades

were sucked into a “pan-Asian bubble,” Maile Thi Nguyen, who is a Vietnamese student and president of Students Teaching About Racism in Society, said.

Even though Asia stretches from the Middle East to Russia to Japan, many people

still view its people as homogeneous. China, Japan, and North and South Korea are usually the go-to countries people think of, Nguyen, who uses they/them pronouns,

POSITIVE STEREOTYPES ABOUT ASIAN-AMERICANS IGNORE THEIR DIFFERENCES AND MAKE PEOPLE VIEW THEM AS BETTER THAN OTHER RACIAL MINORITIES, BUT THEY STILL EXPERIENCE RACISM

said. Ethnic groups in Asia — which spans 48 countries — are vastly different, as proven by their cultures, histories and travel patterns.

When more Asian immigrants and their families joined the workforce and received an education, they were described as the “model minority.”

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“It’s enforcing this idea that America only has room for the minorities that do really well, forcing minorities and immigrants to reach unrealistic expectations to be considered part of the American bubble,” they said.

Reiya Bhat, a senior studying political science, said positive stereotypes of Asian-Americans lead people to believe that they don’t experience racism anymore. Asian-Americans just have it in different forms than their black and Latinx counterparts.

Positive views of the Asian-American community save it from institutionalized violence to the extent that other minorities face it. The black community has been forced to deal with more hardships in the U.S. throughout history: slavery and Jim Crow laws to police brutality and mass incarceration, she said.

“When racism happens to Latinx students or Middle Eastern students or Asian students, it doesn’t tend to get seen because we’re so focused on (racism being) about white people versus black people,” Chang said.

Dani Mailap, a senior studying creative writing, said the public needs to view immigration as a problem Asian-Americans face, not just Latinx people. According to the Pew Research Center, 12 percent of all adults in the U.S. are second generation Asian-American.

“When we have a president in office who seems ready to deport anyone at a moment’s notice, we worry about that,” Mailap, who uses they/them pronouns, said. “But we’re very often excluded from that narrative.”

Nguyen said America’s immigration policies can harm Asian-American adoptees if their parents never acquired citizenship for them. Those who came to the country before 2000 aren’t protected under the Child Citizenship Act of 2000. Individuals who find out about their adoptive parents’ oversight too late could be deported back to their home country. Asian-American adoptees who are deported back to their home countries have no connections there and have a higher risk of depression and suicide, they said.

Another issue people overlook affecting Asian-Americans is affirmative action,

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Edmond Chang, an assistant professor of English, said the “model minority” stereotype characterizes Asians as hard workers who are often passive and will assimilate into American culture. Asian-Americans are affected by politics differently than other minority groups due to positive stereotypes about their racial identities.

The problem with that stereotype is not all Asian ethnic groups start off on the same footing, he said. Southeast Asian countries are considered less developed, meaning any immigrant families who migrated to the U.S. might not have the same resources or opportunities.

Charlie Morgan, an assistant professor of sociology, said Laotian, Vietnamese and Cambodian individuals came to the U.S. as refugees after the Vietnam War. “Obviously, they’re going to struggle more,” he said. “I think we’re less likely to recognize the needs they might have, especially being refugees, because in our minds we’re comparing them to (Eastern Asians) who come with a lot of resources and economic wealth.”

Eastern Asian families often come to the U.S. to give their children a chance at a proper education, and they weren’t forced out of their home countries, Morgan said. Those families usually come with savings, knowledge of the culture and better connections.

With positive stereotyping about Asian Americans, Chang said, white people may draw attention away from systematic racism. They put one racial minority group on a pedestal to take significance away from others because there can’t be a shining example without a dud.

“Look how successful this minority group has been in the U.S.. Why don’t all the other minority groups do the same thing?” he said.

Nguyen, a senior studying stage management, said the “model minority” belief divides racial minority groups because it enforces negative racial stereotypes about black and Latinx people. (Latinx is a gender-neutral term used to refer to Latino people.) Other minorities lose respect when they don’t fit into that stereotype, which may lead to police brutality and unfair immigration laws.

Banding together with other minority groups is really important to show a sense of solidarity and to demonstrate that groups don’t have to only support ‘their own’ in order to be successful

which can create confusion because people aren’t sure whether Asian-Americans deserve the benefits of policy, Morgan said.

Certain Asian-American families fall below a certain socio-economic status which makes them similar to many African American and Latinx families who could benefit from affirmative action.

“But the image is Asian-Americans are already doing better than whites so why should they deserve any kind of affirmative action, ignoring the class differences,” he said.

Bhat, who grew up with an Indian heritage, said non-black people of color don’t have a good track record of being physically present and protesting issues other racial minorities face today, but it’s essential that those groups help each other.

“Banding together with other minority groups is really important to show a sense of solidarity and to demonstrate that groups don’t have to only support ‘their own’ in order to be successful,” she said in an email.

Throughout history, Asian-Americans haven’t been the protesters for their own issues too often at the level of other racial minorities.

Morgan said Asian-American activism has only related to very specific, local issues that affect them.

Mailap remembers hearing about altright protesters at the Charlottesville white nationalist rally claiming they weren’t racist for saying black people are dumb because they thought Asians succeeded more than white people. Mailap said Asian-Americans need to stand with

- Reiya Bhat, senior studying political science

other marginalized groups to stop those hurtful comments.

Mailap has to show their support because they can’t be quiet about race issues concerning Asian-Americans or other racial groups. They’re committed to activist efforts in Athens, but have a difficult time creating a space for themself in activist efforts because there are never more than a few Asian-American students joining the action.

“I am loud and headstrong and refuse to let anyone forget that I am WW and proud,” Mailap said in an email. “I have to hold space for myself and prove that I have the right to be there and that my voice deserves to be heard just as much as any other person in the activism scene.”

Asian-American students might not join activist efforts because positive stereotyping can make it seem like they don’t need to become political, because their racial minority group is in good public standing, Nguyen said.

Some Asian-Americans still have internalized racism and live by the mentality that they should keep quiet because participating in protests would hurt their futures, they said.

“If other Asian-American people see that Asian-American people are involved in activism and involved in Asian-American issues, then maybe that could give them the confidence to care more,” Nguyen said.

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the weekender

The Union to host Ohio duo Caamp

HARDIKA SINGH FOR THE POST

Liv Rees has seen Caamp before, but she’s more than excited to watch the Ohio music duo perform live again.

“I like that type of music,” Rees, a junior studying civil engineering, said. “They sound the same live and they’re just two guys, but they are really talented.”

Ohio duo Caamp will return to Athens to perform at The Union Bar & Grill, 18 W. Union St., for its third year Thursday and Friday.

The band was originally scheduled to perform only on Friday with special guest The Crooked Spines, but tickets sold out for Friday’s performance due to the high demand. Thus, the band added a second show Thursday.

Tickets for the band’s Thursday show are still on sale and will feature special guest Speaking Suns. Tickets are $10 for general admission and can be purchased online through Ticketfly.

The band consists of two members: guitarist Evan Westfall and banjo player Taylor Meier. Although the two grew up as childhood friends in Upper Arlington, they only began writing music together in 2012. Three years later, the two gave a name to their performing act, and Caamp was formed, according to band’s website.

The duo released its self-titled debut record in March 2016 and has performed since then.

Rees first saw Caamp’s perform live at music festivals back in her hometown of Gallipolis. Last year, Rees attended the band’s second performance at The Union and enjoyed watching the band perform again.

“Both times I got to talk to them and I thought that was really cool,” Rees said.

Caamp has more than a million listeners on Spotify, and the band’s songs “Vagabond” and “Misty” have both been played more than 4 million times.

Patrick Diller, a local baker, has not heard of Caamp before but is excited that the band will be performing at The Union.

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Ohio-based indie duo Caamp will perform at The Union Bar & Grill on Friday. (PROVIDED via Adam Sensenbrenner)

“The Union is one of Athens’ greatest music venues. It’s kind of an Athens stalwart; it is a music venue that artists want to come play at,” Diller said. “We want to hear all kind of different music. They have hosted all kinds of music upstairs from punk rock to Swedish ballads ... it is Athens.”

Ariana Ehrhart, a sophomore studying creative writing, said she has a fun time whenever she goes to The Union with friends on the weekends. She has attended a live performance by Caamp before and is excited to see the band as she really enjoys its music.

“I like seeing them live because they have a nice performance ... and the way that they handle it on stage is really fun,” Ehrhart said.

Caamp is on a nationwide tour with Rainbow Kitten Surprise. Its tour begins in Athens and ends May 12 in San Diego.

Tickets for many of the venues have already been sold out.

Rees said it’s “awesome” that Caamp performs in both bigger and smaller venues, and said she’s glad she got to watch the band perform in her small hometown twice and once in Athens. Rees, whose

favorite song is “Hey Joe,” finds the band to be very authentic and said the “singer-songwriter” feel in Caamp’s music unique to the band.

“It’s really simple, but it’s really complex,” Rees said.

Mae Yen Yap contributed to this report.

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Friday The Amazing Cat Show art opening

at 6 p.m. at ARTS/West, 132 W. State St. A “meowtain” of cat-themed art will be displayed at ARTS/West Gallery beginning Friday The exhibition is filled with art created by individuals from the New Beginnings House in McArthur and Home Away From Home in Logan. Live music, food and beverages will be provided. A few cats will be up for adoption at the event. Admission is free.

Love Alive with Subterranean at 10

p.m. at Casa Nueva, 6 W. State St. Columbus-based rock band Love Alive will return to Casa Nueva and will be joined by Dayton-based band Subterranean. Admission is $5 for ages 18 to 20 and $3 for ages 21 and above.

Saturday Wine, Mead and Venison Competition

at 5 p.m. at ARTS/West, 132 W. State St. For four hours, home brew competitors will compete to show off their best dark, light and one-of-a-kind brews. Admission is free, but attendees who would like to try the products are recommended to bring $12.

Winter Dance Concert at 7:30 p.m. at Templeton-Blackburn Alumni Memorial Auditorium. The Dance Division in OU’s School of Dance, Film and Theater will present the annual Winter Dance Concert featuring performances from students and works by faculty and guest artists. Admis-

The exterior of ARTS/West, 132 W. State St. (KEVIN PAN / FILE)

sion is free for OU students with IDs and $12 for general admission.

Sunday Family Art Encounters at 2 p.m. at the

Kennedy Museum of Art, 100 Ridges Circle. The Kennedy Museum of Art will host its drop-in program for families to engage in creative art activities. Admission is free and open to all ages accompanied by an adult.

Prior registration is not required.

March Family Contra Dance at 3 p.m.

at ARTS/West, 132 W. State St. Spend an afternoon filled with music and dancing with family members at ARTS/West. Children and adults will be taught dance moves until 5 p.m. Donations of $3 per dancer are encouraged.

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